Surname Pustišek in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pustišek families are almost entirely Croats (from Klanjec area ), barely Slovenes (from Zagreb ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Klanjec area. In Gaber in Pregrada area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Pustišek.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Pustišek live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and threee other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Velika Mlaka (15), Pristava in Klanjec area (<5), Zapresic (<5), and in Kostrena Sveta Lucija in Bakr area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pustišek is present in two countries.

Characteristic first names

Nives Pustišek, Tomica Pustišek, Krešimir Pustišek, Ivana Pustišek, Damir Pustišek, Nadica Pustišek, Robert Pustišek, Maja Pustišek, Andrej Pustišek, Dragutin Pustišek, Zdravko Pustišek, Deborah Pustišek, Ljerka Pustišek, Anica Pustišek, Marina Pustišek, Nada Pustišek, Branimir Pustišek, Bernarda Pustišek, Ksenija Pustišek

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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